INCF Japan Node (J-Node) and neuroinformatics platforms
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RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan
As a national node of INCF, Japan Node (J-Node) was organized at the Neuroinformatics Japan Center (NIJC) (http://nijc.brain.riken.jp/), RIKEN BSI in April 2005. J-Node (http://www.neuroinf.jp/) facilitates Japanese activities in neuroinformatics research and also participates in the international coalition of INCF. Under the advice of J-Node Committee, J-Node promotes domestic neuroinformatics (NI) together with the NIJC Steering Committee, the Platform Coordinating Committee, and BSI laboratories. Our missions are mainly as in the following: providing links and smooth integration of the NI Platforms (Portal site for NI platforms in Japan), supporting the NI Platforms, supplying and supporting NI tools and system such as the base-platform “XooNIps” (http://xoonips.sourceforge.jp/) in cooperation with BSI NI lab, and providing documents in Japanese on the activities of INCF. Several NI platforms have developed and operated in public, providing unique databases, tools and services as in figure 1.
Visiome: A web-based database system with a variety of digital research resources in vision science. This platform features Visual Neuron Simulator for computing and generating action potentials based on a visual neuron model in real time; Neocognitron, an artificial neural network model; Psychlops, an OpenGL-based visual stimulus generation system.
Neuron-Glia: Shares new findings and ideas among experimental and theoretical neuroscientists. This platform’s functions are: (1) publicize & archive models, related data and tools regarding Neuron-Glia functions, (2) provide workspace for sharing models, data, tools and memos privately among group members of registered users.
Brain-Machine Interface (BMI): Allows all registered users to share experimental data, mathematical models, tools for various researches such as neuroscience, computational theory, and robotics etc.
Invertebrate Brain (IVB): Provides Invertebrate brain & behavior images, Models for neuron simulator, LSM images of neuron, Models of 3D neural structure and Research tools.
Neuro-Imaging (NIMG): Has become one of the most important key technologies for studying human brain mechanisms. NIMG’s free standalone software, sBrain, was developed to display 3D-brain images and to search papers that include activations at the locations specified by pointing on the images.
Integrative Brain Research (IBR): A grant group of neuroscientists including about 300 PIs funded by MEXT, a Japanese Ministry. This PF has introduced three major programs: Neuroscientist Database, Neuroscientist SNS, and Mouse Phenotype database.
Cerebellum: Based on the concepts of the cerebellum, references and images, experimental data for the modeling, source codes of neural network models and other tools for the study in this field are available.
XooNIps and Visiome, NIMG, IVB platforms will be presented at the poster session during the congress.
The members of each platform are gathered from different universities and institutes all over Japan to be united and fulfill their responsibilities for developing Neuroinformatics community.
Conference:
Neuroinformatics 2008, Stockholm, Sweden, 7 Sep - 9 Sep, 2008.
Presentation Type:
Oral Presentation
Topic:
Live Demonstrations
Citation:
Usui
S,
Kokubo
T,
Akazawa
F and
Okumura
Y
(2008). INCF Japan Node (J-Node) and neuroinformatics platforms.
Front. Neuroinform.
Conference Abstract:
Neuroinformatics 2008.
doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.11.2008.01.125
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Received:
28 Jul 2008;
Published Online:
28 Jul 2008.
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Correspondence:
Shiro Usui, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, usuishiro@riken.jp